It is really exciting to see initiatives taken by Edx, coursera, udacity and others in taking quality higher education to large audience in a very cost effective manner. Unfortunately, entities like HEC, senior management of public and private universities and faculty responsible for this task in Pakistan are enjoying their comfort zone of traditional modes of higher education where quality of education is hardly ever put to a transparent evaluation. Courses being taught on Internet are open to all sorts of open and transparent evaluation.
I feel that industry has a very significant role to play. For example in IT industry, companies could adopt policy of giving hiring preference to fresh graduates and professionals who take relevant online courses from these top universities of the world. PASHA could take a lead in positively encouraging this hiring practice amongst its members and then reaching out to students and giving them this message as they enter undergraduate education. Students should know that knowledge acquired from these world class online courses is as or more important than name of their institution. This change will happen only if industry demands it and students internalize it on industry demand. Management of HEC and universities and faculty may come along if they realize that their current mental model and resulting management and teaching practices are making them irrelevant due to this change brought by technology.
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